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Even scientists have developed a touch of comet fever. They have commandeered the world's most powerful telescopes, including the high-flying Hubble, to plumb the secrets of one of the most ancient objects orbiting the sun. Says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts: "It's the brightest one since 1976, and we're dropping everything to study...
...flyer says that C.E. Floyd, the general contractor of the Smithsonian Center project, pays inadequate wages, provides few or no benefits and regularly violates tax, insurance and legal obligations...
Union workers from a local carpenters' union are protesting a renovation project on the Harvard-affiliated Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
What the data may be saying is simply that the dividing line between stars and planets may be less distinct than astronomers had believed. "Everything found so far poses challenging questions for planetary formation theory," says astronomer Robert Stefanik, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. That was underscored last week when, after weeks of government shutdown, results were released from a NASA experiment much closer to home. The probe's plunge from the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter's atmosphere showed that the planet has higher winds, less lightning, less water, helium and neon, and--at the point of impact...
That antenna is a Harvard-Smithsonian radio telescope, the Brobdingnagian ear of the newly dedicated project BETA, the latest and most ambitious effort yet in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The search has been doggedly conducted over 31/2 decades by small bands of devoted scientists around the world. It's a quest not only for life beyond the Earth but for life intelligent and capable enough to transmit meaningful radio signals across vast stretches of empty space...